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Ho-hum. The tedium of scam mails. I decided to save time and send a copy of this response to a whole crowd of African scam artists.

Be realistic - everyone knows that lotteries, etc.; are not announced via Email. If I had ever heard of the lottery/sweepstakes/drawing, I would not have entered; much less won. A consolation prize of $1M? You have taken too many drugs, your brain is fried.

Furthermore, Microsoft has their own Email server, perhaps you've heard of it "Microsoft.com"? Employees of Microsoft do not use companies like BigPond or GMail for Microsoft official business. Next particular bit of ridiculousness: if a lottery official was awarding a prize and had contacted a recipient, he/she would KNOW who the individual was and would not have to ask. These things are just too stupid.

OK - let's do a little bit of mathematics. $1,977,500 USD from you at today's exchange rate. Since the other nine scammers for this evening also promised me a total of just over $140,000,000 (140.0M) USD, my grand total for the last 30 days is $3.2B USD. My potential net worth is several hundred billion dollars (more than the GNP of Nigeria) if I were to collect all the money that I have supposedly won or that people wanted to "give" me.

Neither your name nor your Email address had any results on Google searches, so maybe you should have stuck with the old reliable "Brian Hunt". That scam name has been around a long time, too. He's got a number of Email addresses: brianhunt004@yahoo.co.uk; brianhunt008@yahoo.com; uknl-4@hotmail.com; fiduciary_unl@myway.com; fiduciaryagent@uknl-merseyworld.com; brianhunt2000@wherever.com; brian_hunt@maximumsecuritytrust.com; and ukrelease007@hotmail.com; just to choose a few. He's a busy little scammer.

Although each scammer changes the email slightly, the particular scam letter you chose this time has been around for a long time. Please write something new. I keep requesting some originality from your co-scammers, but it must be that not one African scammer has ever had an original thought. According to Interpol, Nigeria is the most corrupt country in the world followed by Pakistan, Kenya, Bangladesh, China, Cameroon, Venezuela, Russia, India and Indonesia (to round out the worst 10). Everyone has heard of Nigerian 419 scams and how to determine exactly how full of it you scammers really are. Why then, would you ever expect a thinking person to trust anything from your continent?

Numerous gorgeous women from around the world have suddenly "remembered" my Email address (even my new Email addresses which are less than three months old), decided to contact me and remind me that they are all helplessly in love with someone they have never met. Even more coincidentally, every one of these beautiful models has a mother who is sick in the hospital in Lagos, Nigeria. Can you believe it? I can't. Lagos, Nigeria must have the most contaminated water in the world to make all of these helpless women go to the hospital.

Your statistics have been added to my other contacts from the world's honest bankers, politicians, lawyers, government officials, persecuted innocent victims, widows, ministers, Shipment Officers, Online Coordinators, Operations Managers, Director of Claims, and ousted presidents". All of these individuals must have obtained my Email addresses from those gorgeous models; because unanimously, you have all collectively decided I'm a great guy - and you all want to make me rich, send me tens of millions of dollars, just to let you use my bank accounts to "deposit" your funds into.

After I collect the first few billion dollars that I'm owed, I will begin writing back to the models who remembered me so fondly. Unfortunately for me, I have lost 1471 relatives (whom I never knew I had) to disease, guerilla action, car accidents, plane hijackings and crashes - almost exclusively on that terrible road between Lagos, Nigeria and it's airport. If only I had already received a few hundred million dollars, I might have been able to afford them some health care.

Recently on the Internet, I watched a police raid on one of the Lagos, Nigeria internet café's during which they arrested a few of your co-scammers and confiscated their computers. I'm sure the police simply turned the perpetrators loose a couple of blocks away, just as soon as they were no longer being filmed, but it was a good show nevertheless.

To return to my first complaint - I'm bored. Write something completely new and I'll review it for ignorance, ridiculousness and sheer stupidity - I'm sure you will get a high score on all aspects.

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Originally posted by AnonJr
The best solution would be to shoot spammers on sight.

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Originally posted by Shaggy

I've always been much more partial to shooting the idiots who fall for their scams thus providing the spammers with a viable source of income and ample reason to continue pissing off the world.

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• The first, simple solution to spammers on my site is the blocking of entire country codes (e.g. *.ru, *.pl, *cn). This is not an issue for my site's user-base because it is a regionally-focused site. In this thread above there is discussions RE: the implementation of this, including the display of a snippet of code. However, there isn't much explanation regarding where this code should be placed - it's not even clear to me in which file it should go, much less at which line. This is made more complex because my understanding is that this anti-spam e-mail MOD has been incorporated into 3.4.07, but I don't know how it was incorporated (e.g. using the code referred to in this thread, or by the creation of separate .asp files or by the use of a d'base somewhere). I have added some e-mail domains to the filter in 3.4.07 and it's working well for specific domains, but for example, it does not recognize wildcards '*', so entering the domain '@*.ru' accomplishes nothing. Could someone tell me if the code for banning entire nation codes (and *.info while you're at it) can be incorporated into 3.4.07 - and if so, please tell me in which file and before or after which lines of code it should be placed?




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(right(lcase(Request.Form("Email")),5)=".info") or _

the number show the chars that are in the string
.info = 5
.biz = 4
.ru = 3<

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• The second potential solution would be to add code that prevents the registration of users who use the same last name and first name. Really, about 99.9% of the spammers on my site do this - I assume they are probably using a 'bot to automate this process? I tried to search this forum a bunch of times but couldn't find the threads dealing with this again. If someone knows what I'm referring to and can tell what code to insert where and into which file (of 3.4.07) I would be greatly indebted to him.